Windows 2000 alongside Vista?

[jky]

On a pc preloaded with vista I shrinked the disk and on the
new space I installed w2k. After that, could not load vista
anymore. Then I reinstalled vista from the recovery dvd,
now I have vista but no w2k. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

When you installed Win2K you overwrote the Vista bootloader with Win2K's
version that does not recognize Vista. You can add a Win2K entry to Vista's
using either bcdedit from an elevated command prompt or VistaBootPro (from
the .org of the same name).

Adding boot entries with bcdedit:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791568.aspx

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[jky]

When you installed Win2K you overwrote the Vista bootloader with Win2K's
version that does not recognize Vista. You can add a Win2K entry to
Vista's using either bcdedit from an elevated command prompt or
VistaBootPro (from the .org of the same name).

Adding boot entries with bcdedit:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791568.aspx

Do I need the guid of the w2k partition, if so, how do I obtain it?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

No, one will be assigned when you add the entry.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com